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Shinnecock Hills was also the trendsetter for the social exclusiveness that became characteristic of prominent clubs. It was the first course to boast a clubhouse, which ever since have become accepted as de rigeur. Moreover, the clubhouse was designed by Stanford White, the legendary architect of the period. By the turn of the century, Shinnecock had become the first American golf club to be incorporated and have a waiting list...
...Gordon Lightfoot, James Taylor in the next few weeks. Ticket prices are steep--$5.50-$7.50--but what isn't? Allow yourself a little time to wander around nearby Stock-bridge and Lennox, quaint little villages where you can spend a fortune. Some basic familiarity with these places is de rigeur for anyone who wishes to hold his/her head high in Harvard Yard...
...ideologue with popular backing Moynihan is dangerous. As a serious theorist he is absurd: he denounces OPEC, as is de rigeur on the American center-right, for its raising of oil prices and he extolls the world free market. Yet there is no free market; monopolistic multinational corporations control international trade in manufacturing, charging inflated prices and thus adding to their profit margins. Third world producers of food and raw materials have heretofore engaged in competition with each other to their detriment, over-producing and lowering prices for their goods. In the 20 years between...
...Donleavy's world, things must never be "ersatz" or "outre," nor people "parvenu"; chamois gloves and cummerbunds are "de rigeur." A favorite social disease is known fondly as "The Syph". All is familiar and in its place, for good or for worse. You are meant to enter his world of social fatuousness, accept his intimate chit-chat as personal conseil and assume that you possess all the sports cars, villas and yachts that are referred to. As a result, you and your mythical antagonist--i.e., the ever-present social enemy--become the protagonists. The verbal bouts in which you both...
Opening night of a Pudding show is class. Livery and lingerie are de rigeur and the shine of diamonds mingles with the sheen of vaseline. Though not the well-sifted company of Strawberry Night--the showing to which only members of clubs are invited--still, everyone who should be here, is here, smahshing, absolutely dahshing, spectacle, the 'Asty's opening night. Champagne glasses litter every ledge; empty bottles cover the pool table (draped with a white cloth for the occasion). Everyone waves the bubbly with reckless dash over the floor or other people. The stuff flows freely; those present have...